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NAIROBI: Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery has directed police to interrogate journalists of three daily newspapers, which exposed a fresh parliamentary investigation into Sh3.8 billion controversial payments for security-related contracts that Auditor General Edward Ouko has questioned.
A day after Mr Nkaissery was questioned by the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over the contentious payments, including some Sh2 billion that was paid on June 30, 2015, the last day of the last financial year, an officer from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations summoned the journalists.
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